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Volleyball Hearts

Chapter Two: Shouyou Hinata
Rating: K
Prompt: Chibi Love
Requested by: arans and kakashixangela

The boys of the Karasuno Volleyball Club watched on with varying levels of interest and confusion as Hinata leaned against the wall talking to a very pretty girl named Kagome. She had first started visiting their practices a few weeks ago, and since then she and Hinata had been nearly inseparable.

She was apparently a first year, but she was so quiet in class that none of the teams first years had noticed her even though she was in the same class as Tsukishima and Yamaguchi. With as thin as they had been spread at Ukai's family store, they'd taken on a couple of part-time student workers, and Kagome had been one of them. And thus she came to be involved with the Volleyball Club. Every afternoon, Ukai's mother, sweet woman that she was, sent Kagome up to the second gymnasium with a basket of fruit and juice boxes for the team.

And so, as the team took a short break to rest and get something to boost their energy, they took their time to really examine the odd couple that Hinata and Kagome made.

Drawing his eyebrows together, Tsukishima was the first to speak. "How?" It was all that really needed to be said for the rest of the team to know what he meant.

Suga chuckled a little as he watched Kagome hold the orange that she was peeling up to Hinata's hair and laugh causing the boy to blush but laugh along with her. "He took a chance and asked her," he explained with a shrug.

"Again, I ask," Tsukishima turned to look at his upperclassman. "How?"

"I gotta agree," Tanaka spoke up rubbing the back of his head. "Hinata's a great kid, but he gets so nervous before matches that he has to run to the bathroom about five times. How'd he get the nerve up to ask out a girl? A pretty girl?"

"You'd have to ask him," Suga smiled. While deep down he wondered the very same thing, he was very proud of Hinata. He usually got so nervous and worked up over such small things that asking Kagome to go out with him had been a huge step. He almost felt like a proud parent. Of course he would never admit that to the rest of the team. They already thought of him as the team "mom," and he didn't want to enforce that label.

Kageyama frowned. His expression was one of immense confusion and slight unease as he asked, "But why?"

"Probably their personalities," Daichi chimed in as he drank from his box of apple juice. When several pairs of eyes turned to stare at him, he cleared his throat and elaborated. "They're both really sunny people that attract other people to them. You always hear that opposites attract, but I think it's the opposite way around this time."

Again, the team watched the couple. Kagome and Hinata were laughing together at something that the rest of the team had missed, but Daichi seemed to have a point. Both first years brought a certain amount of light to a room, and they just seemed to naturally gravitate towards each other.

As the couples' laughter died down, they saw Kagome sigh and lean her head lightly against Hinata's shoulder as she passed him another orange slice. The redhead took it with a light blush that his girlfriend couldn't see and popped it in his mouth before smiling down at the slightly shorter girl.

"Okay, come on, guys," Noya called out as he pushed his way to the front of the group observing the couple like they were part of a nature documentary. "Who cares about the how and why? That," he said as he pointed over his shoulder with his thumb to where Hinata and Kagome still stood, "is cute as hell, and you should all be happy for Shouyou instead of standing around gawking at him. Good for him! How many of you guys have girlfriends? Maybe you should go get some pointers from him!" With that Noya started laughing while several of his teammates looked away with light blushes. Just then, Ukai called everyone to gather back up and resume their practice drills.

Kagome packed up what was left of the untouched fruit and juice boxes before settling it against her hip and turning to face Hinata. "They were talking about us again, you know."

"Yeah," Hinata laughed a little nervously as he rubbed the back of his neck.

"And you still don't care?" She asked with a small smile as she stepped to stand directly in front of him.

"Nah," he told her with a bright smile. "Besides, they'll get tired of talking about us soon and find something else."

Kagome nodded and bounced the basket a little to adjust it's weight. "So I'll see you at the store after practice?"

"Oh yeah!" he replied happily. Kagome's shifts always ended after practice got out because that's when Ukai would return to the store, so he had started walking Kagome home before heading back over the mountain to his house.

"Great, I'll see you then," Kagome smiled as she raised up on her toes just enough to quickly peck his cheek. She laughed a little when she heard a few calls from the rest of the team. When she pulled back, she smiled at his blush before she turned and started towards the gym's doors. But her departure was halted by a hand gripping her wrist and turning her back around. She was caught off guard when a set of warm lips met hers for a quick kiss before Hinata released her wrist and ran back to where his team waited, this time with much louder yells and whistles.

When she finally got outside and away from the rowdy bunch, Kagome started laughing. She knew it hadn't been easy for Hinata to do that in front of his friends and teammates, and judging by how red his face had been as he released her, he knew what he was in for after she left. But despite all of that, as she thought of the sweet gesture, she couldn't stop the light fluttering in her chest or the happy laughter that followed.